The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gabble \Gab"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gabbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Gabbling.] [Freq. of gab. See Gab, v. i.]
To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber.
--Shak.To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; -- used of fowls as well as people; as, gabbling geese.
Wiktionary
n. Rapid, confused speech. vb. (present participle of gabble English)
Usage examples of "gabbling".
Many people wore mouth-masks and some wore full masks with earphones and receivers: he watched them gabbling as they walked along.
Murdick's gabbling fear made him giddy and gave him an illusion of courage.
The memory of Murdick had made it worse, because he easily imagined himself being just as defenseless and clumsy, with a pinched wire or a blocked air supply, shuffling in front of the aliens in mute terror, maybe gabbling and pleading just before he was netted and his head twisted off or his bones broken.
They scuttled away before him, gabbling, and he walked through the nearest crack in the wall of the structure and out into the sunlight, toward the transceiver and the belt where he had dropped them.
Ghaniya scowled furiously at the gabbling Mu'atiyah, now shaken by the lack of interest on all faces.
He was gabbling in the local dialect which Shef could not understand, but he could catch the unmistakable note in his voice.
There he was, still in the courtyard, all of them still reading, gabbling, scritch-scratching away with never a care in the world.
As the latter was still gabbling in mindless fury, the wizard cut impatiently to the core.
Oh God and what a fearful racket they made—millions and millions of little beards, all of them gabbling away in hundreds of barbarous tongues, not one of which made any proper sense.
Almost at once he came on again with, “I forgot to tell you that Luther is said to have died in his Dortmund laboratory while gabbling some incoherent nonsense to his local paper.
Hysterical gabbling poured from the face's twitching lips, gabbling that ended in a long hoarse sigh.
Almost at once he came on again with, ``I forgot to tell you that Luther is said to have died in his Dortmund laboratory while gabbling some incoherent nonsense to his local paper.
Malatkas was gabbling to herself and making violent gestures with her hands, as if to ward off some unseen evil.
A nurse must have talked in her sleep, for within two days the forbidden gabblings were the property of the town.